The 6-th International Conference of Tensor Society on Differential Geometry and its Applications and Mathematical Mathematical Foundation

of Information Sciences and its Applications On occasion of the anniversary of

Akitsugu Kawaguchis 100 years birth

who is the founder of Tensor society
August 5 9, 2002. Tsukuba Tokai University

Dedicated to our professors which I meet along my way of

Tensor Calculus Application in Mechanics

* the anniversary of Akitsugu Kawaguchis 100 years Birth who is the Founder of Tensor society

and
* academician Tatomir Andjeli} (1903-1993) and prof. dr Danilo Ra{kovi} (1910-1985), Yugoslav scientists

In the first part of my lecture I will speak of my meeting with tensor calculus, which happened at 1970., when I was, but a young engineer by education, and a mathematician by soul, and a postgraduate student of engineering mechanics at the newly founded Nis University (in 1965), with published papers in Analytical mechanics and with the first monography published in Serbian titled Tensor Calculus written by academician Tatomir Aneli in 1966 and with the manuscript of my professor of mechanics, elastodynamics and theory of vibration and Theory of Elasticity, prof. Dr Ing. Math. Danilo P. Rakovi, which practically introduced me to the application of the tensor calculus in discrete and continuous mechanics.

Academician Aneli introduced tensor calculus into the studies of mathematics and mechanics at the Natural and Mathematical Sciences High School in Belgrade (1946), and professor Danilo P. Rakovi, introduced tensor calculus into the studies of mechanics at the technical sciences High Schools in Serbia. He brought the high mathematical level of tensor calculus closer to students of technical sciences and mechanical engineers.

One of academician Anelis important monographs was published in German by Springer-Werlag [Aneli, T. P., (1968), Tensorrechnung nebst Anwendungen (Mathematische Hilfsmittel des Ingenieurs) Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1968.] In this part of my lecture I will present the content of research results of important Serbian scientists (Tatomir P.Anjeli (1903-1993), Danilo P. Rakovi (19101985), Rastko Stojanovi (1932 -1972) and Veljko Vujii (1929)) which deal with the application of tensor calculus in mechanics.

Thanks to my professors who thought me the basics of tensor calculus, aside from my work in the area of nonlinear mechanics which was influenced by the works of academician Yu.A. Mitropolsky form Kiev, I started to think about engineering problems of nonlinear dynamics in a tensor way. That is the way that brought my first paper in this area to life. It was titled 148. Hedrih (Stevanovi), K.: (1993), The mass moment vectors at ndimensional coordinate system, Tensor, Japan,Vol 54 (1993) , pp. 83-87. which I sent to the International Conference of Tensor Society on Differential Geometry and its Applications 1992 Bucharest, on occasion of the 90-th Anniversary of Akitsugu Kawaguchis birth who is the founder. Unfortunately I did not present it myself because, at that time, I was obliged to participate in the work of the ICTAM92 Haifa of IUTAM in Haifa.

The publishing of my, above mentioned, paper in the Tensor journal brought me more inspiration and I took it as support from the Tensor Society, which happened during the scientific blockade of Yugoslavia, so that I, apart from my basic research in the area of nonlinear mechanics, continued to think in the tensor way which led to the creation of several papers published under the names listed by the list which apply tensor calculus in the mechanics of discrete and continual systems.

Paper titled: Hedrih (Stevanovi}), K. (1999), Comments to the Fundamental Theorem and Extension of the Rotation Tensor of the Deformable Body, Tensor, N.S., vol. 61, No 3 (1999), pp. 290-303. (publishing process in 2002) I wrote at the time when Nato bombs were falling on my city Ni{ and University, in the period from March to June 1999. Acceptance of this paper for publishing in the tensor society journal was another encouragement for me to continue my work in the area of tensor calculus application in mechanics.

The founder of the Japanese scientific Tensor Society, the honorable scientist Akitsugu Kawaguchi. together with the current members-scientists of the society headed by you, honorable professor dr Tomoaki Kawaguchi made me great honor by inviting me to hold an invited lecture at your Symposium which is well-known and respected throughout the world. I also see this as a close meeting of the Japanese and Yugoslav scientists and I am happy for that. My participation in the work of the symposium will be my payment of respect to the founders of the Tensor society in Japan, but at the same time I would like to give great thanks to my professors Tatomir P.Adjeli (1903-1993) and Danilo P. Ra{kovi} (1910-1985) who thought me tensor calculus and
that remarkable language for mutual comprehension of

mathematics, mechanics and mechanical engineering dynamics.

Professor Dr.

Akitsugu Kawaguchi
(Pictured on his seventieth birthday, 8tu April 1972) (April 8, 1902, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu Region)

Profesor dr Ing. dipl. Math.

Danilo P. Ra{kovi}
(1910-1985)
Yugoslavia

Academician

TATOMIR P. ANDJELI
(1903 - 1993)
Yugoslavia

with colleagues A. Bilimovi}, K. Voronjec and D. Ra{kovi} V. A. Vuji~i}s Ph. D. Thesis defend

Academician T. Andjeli}

Academician Tatomir P. Andjeli} and Prof. dr Ing Dipl. Math Danilo P. Ra{kovi}

Academician Tatomir P. Andjeli} and Prof. dr Ing Dipl. Math Danilo P. Ra{kovi} with Colleagues

Professor Dr.

Akitsugu Kawaguchi

Tensor N.S. Vol. 24(1972)

Professor Akitsugu Kawaguchi was born on April 8, 1902, in Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu Region. From 1922 to 1928 he had his schooling at Tohoku University in Sendai (Tohoku Region in Japan) where he did his graduate work taking Bachelor of Science degree in 1925. In 1931 he received the doctorate of science from the some University.

In 1928 hi was appointed Acting Member of the newlyorganized faculty of Sciences of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, in order to organize the development of Mathematics in the some Faculty. From 1928 to 1930 at the request of the Government of Japan he visited Germany, Italy and America in order to study Mathematics, especially Differential geometry. On ther foundation of the faculty of science at the Hokkaido University in 1930 he was appointed Associate Professor of the same University and acted as the director of the Department. Since 1933 hi has been ordinary professor of the same University, and since 1952 he has held an additional post. Professor of the Nihon University in Tokyo, and organized in 1959 the new department of Mathematics at the College od Science and Engineering of the same University.

From 1953 to 1962 he often traveled overseas for attending the International Congress of Mathematicians or delivering lectures to students of many universities in the world. Akitsugu Kawaguchi is the Founder of Tensor Society and first president of the Tensor Society since 1938. Tensor societry is of international nature.

In 1970, after his participation to the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Nica (France) on September 1-10, he was invited to the V. Kongres matematiara , fiziara I astronoma Jugoslavije (Fifth Congress of Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy in Yugoslavia) held in Ohrid (makedonia, Yugoslavia) on September 14-19,as a guest and delivered a one-hour lecture On differential Geometry of higher order manifolds there. Afteward, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade invited him to deliver a lecture and then be was invited by the University in Novi Sad in order to talk with the staffs. Before this participation to the Congress in Nice, on invitation be visited the Mathematical Institute in Oberwolfach (Schwarcwald, West Germany) in the end of August.

The above stated three trips in abroad gave him the good and fortunate chances to make warmer his friendships with many friends in aboard as well as to get personal acquainstances of very many young mathematicians, physists and mechanists in the world, and the Tensor Society could get many new members in virtue of his trips.

 Not only in the field of pure scientific research, but also his contribution to mathematical education in schools in Japan is so great that one cannot disregard it. He keep the position of the President of the Hokkaido Association of Mathematical Education more than ten years and presided the annual meeting of the Association held elsewhere in Hokkaido every year in order to guide studies of mathematical education by school teachers.

. His greatest merit in the introdution of the concept motion, consisting of parallel displacement, rotatio and reflexion, and similar transformation in order to understand the properties of figures (geometry) in place of Euclid Elements into School-mathematics from standpoint of modern idea in geometry. This concept was adopted as the standard one in the Guide-Principle of Education (Gakusha Shido Yoryo) published by the Ministry of Education in Japan.

Academician

TATOMIR P. ANDJELI
(1903 - 1993)

Dr Tatomir P. Andjeli} was professor of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Belgrade, ful member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and International Astronautical Academy in Paris. T.P. Andjeli} studied mathematics, physiscs and asronomy which lead to his formation as theoretician of mechanics and astrodynamics. He published over 100 scientific and university works and papers, among which are 17 university textbooks. He addressed the problems of rational mechanics, Reiman geometry, astrodynamics, numerical methods in mathematics and also historical and phylosophical problems of mechanics. He was very active in scientific societies, especially in disseminating scientific knowledge.

Dr Tatomir P. Andjeli} was a Dean of

the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and Director of Mathematical Institute of the SR of Serbia. He had a long and very fruitful life, that he was in good healt which enabled him to be active fir a long time, and that he wrote his last book

"Introduction to Astrodynamics" at the age of 80.

Professor Andjeli was born on November 11, 1903 in Beanj, an village with no elementary school, so that he had to walk five kilometers to school every day. At the beginning of this century, the Andjelis home, although in village, had a rich library and echoed with foreign languages occasionally. Having completed the grammar school in aak, the young Andjeli decided to go to Heidelberg, the oldest and highly German University. At the university of Heidelberg he enjoyed particular attention by professor Artur Rosentall, an outstanding teacher and anti-Nazi, as well as by professor Heinrich Leibmann. Dwelling in Belgrade onward, Andjeli passed his doctoral exam 1946. Became an assisteant professor in 1946, associate professor in 1951, and full professor in 1956.

Professor Tatomir P. Andjeli started his career as the assistant of the well known and exceptionally creative Milutin Milankovi, and later of pedante and always alert Anton Bilimovi and young Vjeeslav ardecki. Professor Andjeli was a very diligent man, always busy, a man who, in his own way, paid tribute to work and with constant inventivness, never stopped encouraging and supporting his students in their pursuit of knowledge.

Linear algebra and matrices were in the focus of professor Andjeli. The tensors were the second affection of professor Andjelis in sciences. According to the compliments, the tensors represented a scientific field, mathematical discipline, through which hi moved most familiarly and thoroughly and which he educated experts and stimulated scientists. In the period when only a few monographs concerning tensors had been written, our professor Andjeli published the book Tensor Calculus as early as 1952. This book ran through more than five editions, and there are about 25 thousand copies of it either in the libraries throughout our country or in the private possession of various scientists and experts.

This could be considered rarity for our circumstances. In 1970 he held a course in tensor calculus in Centre international des sciences mecaniques (CISM), Udine (Italy), and those lectures were published in English as a separate book: A survey of Tensor calculus, Centre international des sciences mecaniques (CISM),Udine, 1970, p 137. The prominent publishing hous Springer Verlag published the Mathematical Reference Book for Engineers, for which professor Andjeli had written a special entry on tensors. Springer-Verlag [Aneli, T. P., (1968), Tensorrechnung nebst Anwendungen (Mathematische Hilfsmittel des Ingenieurs), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1968.]

Aneli, T. P.,

A survey of Tensor calculus,

Centre international des sciences mecaniques (CISM), Udine, 1970, p 137.
Aneli, T. P., (1968),

Tensorrechnung nebst Anwendungen

(Mathematische Hilfsmittel des Ingenieurs), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1968.

On the cover page of the university non-standard textbook a monograph Theory of shell and plate that academician Andjeli published in 1975, as co-author with P.M. Ogibalov, a short review of his scientific biography could be found: Dr Tatomir P. Andjeli, professor of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Belgrade, full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and international Astronautical Academy in Paris.

T.P. Andjeli studed mathematics, physics and astronomy which lead to his formation as theoretician of mechanics. He published over 100 scientific and university works and papers, among which are 17 university textbooks. He addressed the problems of rational mechanics, Reiman geometry, astrodynamics, numerical methods in mathematics and also historical and phylosophical problems of mechanics. He was very active in scientific societies, especially in disseminating scientific knowledge. He was a Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and Director of Mathematical Institute of the SR of Serbia. Hi is decorated with the Order of Labor with Red Flag and Order for Merits with Gold Star.

Necrology written by corresponding member Boidar D. Vujanovi said: On August 7, 1993., prof. dr Tatomir P. Andjeli deceased, full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and full professor of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and MathematicsProfessor Andjeli was spiritually rich, highly educated and very talented person, whose work at the University left to scientific audience and to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts deep trace that is highly valued in Yugoslav and foreign scientific circles it is rightly considered that professor Andjeli is the founder of the Belgrade school of mechanics. Many generation of students will remember him as a brilliant professor, reliable and wise adviser and director of scientific projects, doctoral dissertations and studies..

Only two years before, during the ceremonial opening of a scientific meeting on January 18, 1991, held in honor of academician Tatomir P. Andjeli, academician Aleksandar Despi,

in his welcome-address, on behalf of the Serbian Academy, expressed the honor and pleasure to open the meeting and among other, said: This honor and pleasure is great one due to the fact that I myself belong to the plead of persons to whom professor Andjeli, over 50 year ego, gave the very first knowledge on the power and possibilities of mathematics and mathematical way of thinking. In my first contact with the secondary school, at that time II (Second) Boys Gymnasium in Belgrade, the first one who described to me what is the term space means was young suplent Tatomir P. Andjeli, straight as a pine tree, and for us school pupils, hogh as a tower.That forst encounter and the period of two years of meeting professor Andjeli, will remain in my memory for ever.

On the same meeting professor Veljko A. Vujii emphasized the contribution of Tatomir P. Andjelis study on the motion of non-holonomic system in fluid, importance of scientific and educational activity for the development of our school of mechanics, and on that occasion he said: ..In consider it is necessary to emphasize that, to some extent, the role of school of Suslov is overstressed with us, and that distinguished place that belong to Tatomir P. Andjeli concerning the development of our school of mechanics is not sufficiently valued. Success of our analytical mechanics and continuum mechanics primarily are based on solid mathematical foundation of Belgrade school, in majority on functional and tensor analysis and differential geometry. Considerable value is to be found in books of professor Andjeli dealing with the problems of matrix, vector and tensor calculus.

On a commemorative meeting academician Vladan Djordjevi said that professor Andjeli had a long and very fruitful life , that he was in good healt which enabled him to be active for a long time, and that he wrote his last book Introduction to Astrodynamics at the age of 80. He also said that professor Andjeli was highly respected and esteemed person, surrounded with love of his family and his associates. He finished his expose with professor Andjelis words: In nature and in the world round us everything is changing and in that constant transformation development and decline nothing occurs without anything that have not existed before and that caused appearance of new things, and concluded saying that today Professor Andjeli is no longer among us, but at a number of faculties of natural sciences and mathematics, technical faculties and scientific institutes in our country, many scientific workers are engaged in theoretical or applied mechanics and who, directly or indirectly, came from his school of mechanics

Academician Andjeli was well known by his wide culture, great knowledge and extremely good memory. He spoke several languages and had outstanding talent and sensitivity for the linguistics of our language. He was also preoccupied with the history of mathematical and mechanical sciences, as well as of astronomy, so he held a great number of scientific and popular lectures in these fields. He resumed that knowing not only the recent state of sciences, but its historical dvelopment as well, is necessary for the true scientific work. He devoted great attention and energy to writing about the famous Milutin Milankovi.

Academician V. orevi said: It can be said freely that when he (Tatomir Andjelic) started to work on tensors, to use them in his scientific papers and give lectures on them at the faculty, it was one quite advanced mathematical discipline, which did not have deeper roots even in more developed countries. Having noticed the vast possibilities offered by the application of the tensor calculus in continuum mechanics relatively early, professor Andjelic voluntarily took the role of a pioneer and wrote a textbook in this area.

.. Thanks to the fact that he was interested in the tensor calculus primarily for the purposes of application in mechanics and geometry, prof. Andjeli succeeded in giving life to this area through his textbook. His book, which has unusually large proportion of text in relation to equations for mathematical literature, is relatively easy to read, easily keeps the attention of readers, and, in my opinion, still represents an unsurpassed text in this area. Although written in Serbian it was not unnoticed abroad.

Academician V. orevi said: And when man in 1957 leaped into space for the first time, prof. Andjelic waited that day with a boy-like curiosity and admiration. He closely observed each of the spectacular steps in conquering space, traveled a lot at that time, was very well informed on everything and was one of the first foreigners who had access to space research centers, both Russian and American. It is little known that the Apolo 17 crew markings were based on his idea. At that time he held a number of lectures on space exploration in the country and made great effort to bring closer and explain the complex laws of nature to common man.

Poseban uticaj na formiranje i `ivotni put nau~nika Tatomira An|eli}a imali su

* veli~anstven i {iroke op{e kulture profesor, izuzetan Mihajlo Petrovi} (1868 - 1943), * znameniti i vi{estruko talentovan i kreativan Milutin Milankovi} (1879 - 1958) i * "pedantan i ve~ito budan" Anton Bilimovi} (1879 - 1970).

XI. KRATAK IZVOD IZ SPISKA PUBLIKOVANIH RADOVA IZ OBLASTI I ASTRONOMIJE

Nau~ni radovi An|eli}, T. P., (1959), ber die Grundlagen der Boscovich, Actes du Symp.intern. R.J. Boscovich, 1958, Beograd, Zagreb, Ljubljana, 1959. An|eli}, T. P., (1959), O putawama projektila ka mesecu, Vasiona, 1959. An|eli}, T. P., (1960), Me|uplanetne putawe, Rad, Beograd, 1960. An|eli}, T. P., (1968), Tensorrechnung nebst Anwendungen (Mathematische Hilfsmittel des Ingenieurs) Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1968.

In memory of

Prof. Dr. Ing. Dipl. Math.

Danilo P. RAKOVI,
full-professor of the Faculties of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade, Ni, Kragujevac, Mostar and Novi Sad

the first head of the Department of Mechanics and Automatics within the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Ni
Prof. Dr. Ing. Dipl. Math. Danilo P. RAKOVI was

This distinguished scientific figure of exquisite creative energy and inspired enthusiasm, a scholar deeply attached to the Yugoslav and Serbian scientific and cultural heritage and an exquisite pedagogist of high ethic principles is in the living memory of many generations of students whom he taught how to learn and love mechanics, as a basic scientific branch of mechanical engineering either directly, through his lectures, or through his various and numerous textbooks and collections of problems which circulate in more than 140,000 copies. His disciples and colleagues are glad that he had the ability to transmit to them his great enthusiasm permeated with his sincere devotion for mechanics and his exquisite scientific eagerness.

Prof. Dr. Ing. Dipl. Math. Danilo P. RAKOVI was born in 1910 in Uice. Upon completing elementary school and six grades of high school, he graduated from the Military Academy in 1930. As an engineering military officer he enrolled in the Department of Mechanical-Electrical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering in Belgrade in 1933. Having graduated in 1938, he enrolled in the Department of Theoretical Mathematics of the Faculty of Philosophy and graduated in 1941. As a graduate mechanical engineer he was appointed assistant section head of the Military-Technical Institute in aak. He remained on that position during 1941. In 1942 he was appointed assistant of the Faculty of Engineering in Belgrade where he earned his doctor's degree in 1944 upon the defense of the thesis entitled: "Tangential strains of normally profiled beams".

His university career took the following course: in June 1946 he was appointed assistant professor and lecturer; 1949 - associate professor; assistant professor of mechanics at the Faculty of Engineering; 1951 - associate professor; 1957 - full professor of mechanics.
Prof. Dr. Ing. Dipl. Math. Danilo P. RAKOVI lectured mechanics, resistance of materials and oscillation theory at the faculties of mechanical engineering in Belgrade, Ni, Kragujevac, Novi Sad and Mostar, as well as in the Faculty of Science in Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, Faculty of Electronics in Ni{ and at the Military-Technical College in Belgrade. More details on the research work of professor RAKOVI can be found in the Belgrade University Bulletin no. 75 of 1957, issued on the occasion of his appointment as full professor at the Faculty of Mech. Engineering in Belgrade.

During his university career he was twice elected Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Belgrade University. In the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering in Ni, he lectured statistics, kinetics, kinematics, dynamics, oscillation theory, resistance of materials, theory of elasticity, as well as analytical mechanics, theory of nonlinear oscillations and continuum mechanics on the postgraduate level. He was the first head of Department of Mechanics and Automatics of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Ni. He was an extremely inspired professor, scientist and practitioner much favored among his students, respected by his colleagues both as a professor and an engineer, because he knew to relate engineering theory and practice.

Professor Rakovi was a very fertile writer. While still in military service he wrote five professional papers. In the period before 1957, when he was appointed full professor, he published 26 scholarly papers. As a full professor he wrote 37 scientific works published in the scientific journals of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Polish Academy of Science, German Society for Mechanics ZAMM and in other foreign journals. He took part in a number of scientific meetings in the country and abroad. He reviewed papers for four leading referral journals in the world: Applied Mechanics Review (USA), Mathematical Reviews (USA), Zentrablatt (Germany) and Referativnii urnal (Moscow). Professor Rakovi was a member of several professional and scientific societies/associations in the country and abroad, GAMM being one of them. He initiated the foundation of the Yugoslav Society for Mechanics during 1952.

He wrote a considerable number of university textbooks which ran through numerous editions. Some of them still hold records as for the number of editions and copies printed within the group they belong to. In addition, he wrote a series of textbooks in the field of mechanics for secondary technical schools, as well as a number of chapters in professional technical handbooks, mimeographed course materials and textbooks for post-secondary schools of mechanical engineering. He also wrote several textbooks for postgraduate studies.

We are of the opinion that this occasion should be used to say a few things about professor Rakovi's four-year-long co-operation with the publishing house "Nauna knjiga" concerning the publication of his university textbooks, collections of problems and various other handbooks. Follows the review of university textbooks and handbooks written by professor Danilo Rakovi and published by "Nauna knjiga":

MECHANICS I (STATICS) - a 18,000-copy printing of first three editions; II edition 1949, III edition 1950; subsequent editions 1960 (a 3,000-copy printing), 1962, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1978 (a 3,000-4,000-copy printing per edition) MECHANICS II (KINEMATICS) - first two editions in a 13,000copy printing. Editions: 1947, 1950, 1966. MECHANICS III (DYNAMICS) - first two editions in 10,000 copies. Editions: 1947, 1956, 1962, 1973. COLLECTION OF PROBLEMS IN STRENGTH (RESISTANCE) OF MATERIALS - first two editions in a 6,000-copy printing. Editions: 1947, 1955, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1985 - a 16,000copy printing approximately. STRENGTH OF MATERIALS - editions: 1955, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1973, 1977, 1980, 1984 - approximately 25,000 copies.

OSCILLATION THEORY - editions: 1957, 1965 - 6,000 copies. TABLES OF STRENGTH OF MATERIALS - (ran through 13 editions) approximately 40,000 copies. ESSENTIAL MATRIX CALCULUS -1971 edition, 1,500 copies. ELASTICITY THEORY - 1985 edition, 2,000 copies.

ANALYTICAL MECHANICS
and

TENSOR CALCULUS,
both edited by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Kragujevac.

Some of his university textbooks were published by other publishing houses such as "Serbian Textbook Printing Office", "Gradjevinska knjiga", "Tehnika knjiga", among which the following ought to be mentioned: ESSENTIAL THEORY OF MECHANISMS (1965) 2,000 copies; MECHANICS II (KINEMATICS), 1966 edition in 3,000 copies; COLLECTION OF PROBLEMS IN MECHANICS III - OSCILLATION THEORY (1969) 2,000 copies.

Among professor Rakovi's textbooks for secondary technical schools the following deserve to be mentioned: STATICS (a 9,000-copy printing), KINEMATICS (7,500), DYNAMICS (10,000).
Among the publications for postgraduate studies the following should be mentioned: ANALYTICAL MECHANICS and TENSOR CALCULUS, both edited by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Kragujevac.

Most of his university textbooks and publications were at the time of their first editions the only professional literature in Serbian language in the field. So, his publications played an important part in spreading the knowledge in the field of technical mechanics among the students and mechanical and other engineers in Serbia and Yugoslavia. It is particularly worth mentioning that he has interpreted all his material by the most modern mathematical apparatus and has illustrated it by numerous examples from the engineering practice. Many of the cited university publications are reprinted even now and are still used by both students of engineering and engineers themselves.

Although he has left us ten years ago, professor Rakovi is still present among the new generations of students, as well as among the engineers through his distinguished textbooks bearing memory of his merits which have left an indelible imprint on the development of mechanical engineering science and practice, as well as on the formation of many a generation of university professors. His life and work set an example serving as a creative impulse to the forth-coming generations educated at the University of Ni. He is an everlasting example and proof that one's deeds can outlive one's physical existence by far.

Professor Rakovi introduced tensor calculus into technical sciences university study (1963) at faculties of technical sciences in Serbia

Mechanics

Differential Geometry and applications

Academician Tatomir Andjeli Danilo Rakovi Rastko Stojanovi Acad. ANS Veljko Vujii Academician SANU Mileva Prvanovi Academician SANU Boidar Vujanovi Katica (Stevanovi) Hedrih Zoran Drakovi Jovo Jari Mirko Vukobrat Yugoslav scientists Tensor Calculus and Applications Neda Bokan Irena omi Novica Blai Nevena Pui Sradjan Vukumirovi Jovanka Mici Svetislav Mini Ljubica Velimirovi